Foreign Sales!

2 May 2011

Nearly a day to the month since my book sold, the good news keeps rolling in. This was announced on Publishers Marketplace today:

Rights to Erin Bowman’s THE LAICOS PROJECT, to Carsten Polzin at Piper in Germany, in a three-book deal, in a pre-empt, by Friederike Biesel at Thomas Schlueck Agency, and in Italy to Ornella Robbiati at Sperling & Kupfer, also in a pre-empt, by Daniela Micura, both on behalf of Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger.

This is unbelievably surreal. I am still having trouble grasping the fact that my book will one day be on bookshelves across North America, so you can imagine how well I’m able to swallow this fantastic news. Germany! Italy! I am so excited, and thrilled and simply without words.

The funny thing with this news is that Sara had called me about a week ago to talk book-businessy-things and, while chatting, she casually mention that we had some German interest. I smiled at the thought of that but truthfully didn’t know what to expect. Foreign interest? Already? I was still coming out of the daze of the original book deal. But after just a few days, Sara called to say we had a fantastic pre-empt offer. I got giddy all over again, much like I did with my original deal. And then, as if Sara was trying to see if she could put me into actual shock, she called me back the very next day to tell me that we had an offer from Italy as well. So I got giddy for the second time in two days, and then went out for a celebratory sushi dinner. It was delicious.

A huge thanks to Sara, for being the biggest champion for this book – bigger than anything I could have possibly imagined a mere 3.5 months ago when I signed with her. And another huge thanks to the fabulous co-agents that helped broker this deal. And to everyone who congratulated me via Twitter on Friday, when I couldn’t hold the news in any longer, thanks as well. You are all fantastic!

 

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  • http://www.ericaorourke.com Erica

    Hurray for foreign ponies. I mean…foreign rights! Although shouldn’t you have gone out for sausages or pasta?

    Regardless, congrats again! May these be the first of many!

    • Erin

      Thanks Erica! I think foreign rights should from this day forward be referred to as foreign ponies. It has such a nice ring to it.

      And you are probably right about the food choice. But The Engineer doesn’t dig sushi much, so my birthday (or celebrations like these) are really the only time I get to sneak it in. Gotta capitalize on those opportunities when I can ;)

  • http://www.amongdahlias.wordpress.com Katy Upperman

    Have you already tweeted this?! If so, how did I miss it?! CONGRATULATIONS, Erin! I can’t even imagine how thrilled you must be. :)

    • Erin

      Thank you Katy! I did tweet the news, but it was a few days ago now. I am beyond thrilled, and still settling down from a second round of giddy shock :)

  • http://www.jessicaspotswood.com Jess

    Yay! I’m so happy for you! And hey, my books are with the same Italian publisher!

    • Erin

      Yay! Does this make us Italian-publisher-sisters? Or something similar? :)

      Thanks for the congrats!

  • http://myfleet-footedself.blogspot.com/ Sophia Richardson

    Next up the UK for your Brit readers, please! Major congratulations, Erin, I hope you’re celebrating.
    - Sophia.

    • Erin

      A UK deal would be amazing. I will keep my fingers crossed. Thanks for stopping by Sophia! Hopefully LAICOS is one day on shelves on your side of the pond :)

  • http://www.thewordsonpaper.blogspot.com Tracey Neithercott

    I know I’ve said it before, but I’m insanely happy for you. You should stock up on Champagne. I have a feeling Italy and Germany won’t be your last foreign sales.

    • Erin

      Aw, thank you so much Tracey! I don’t know what to expect anymore — this whole process has been a whirlwind — but here’s to hoping you’re on to something with that foreign sales prediction! ;)

  • Maureen

    This is so exciting. It sounds like something out of a book!

    • Erin

      And soon it will BE a book. A real one. That you can hold in your hands! :)

  • http://emy-shin.blogspot.com Emy Shin

    Congratulations on the foreign sales, Erin! It’s lovely that one good news came in on the heels of the other. :)

    • Erin

      It was lovely. A bit shocking, but in a good way :) Thanks for the congrats.